Details of Fantomen 2025 hardcover collection released

Jermayn Parker
Apr 17
2 min read

Fantomen has released three hardcover collection books so far and now details have started to be released on the 2025 book. 2024 saw the popular Kate Sommerset stories collected (our review). 2023 saw the Gladiator, Crusader and Egyptian Phantom stories collected (our review) and 2022 saw the Heart of Darkness stories collected (our review).

The 2025 theme will be stories from the 1970 era which includes stories on the fascist country of Rodia (or Rhodia in the newspapers) with the title "På förbjuden mark" translated to "On Forbidden Land". It is now available for pre order for 795 sek ($130AUD, $80USD/EU & 7,000INR). It will be printed in Swedish and not English.

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"På förbjuden mark" is the title of the 1977 Team Fantomen story, written by Janne Lundström, with art by Jaime Vallvé and was first published in Fantomen 1/1977, Fantomet #120 (1979), Mustanaamio 10/1977 and Fantomet 10/1977. It has yet to be published outside of Scandinavia and or in English.

On the Adlibris website, it says the book will be released in August 2025 and unlike the first three books, this will be limited to 700 copies instead of 1,000. The theme listed on the website is:

Rich mine owners exploit their workers, businessmen try to get away with pollution, and in the apartheid state of Rodia, a few thousand whites rule over millions of black residents. Corruption and oppression permeate Bengali and her neighboring countries, and the resistance movements need all the help they can get. Luckily for them, a wandering ghost haunts the deep forests, who has dedicated his life to fighting evil. Get to know the adventures that cemented the values of the Phantom and put the Swedish newspaper on the world map.

There are no details on the number of pages at this stage or the specific stories but based on the theme description on the Adlibris website it will feature a lot of the stories Robert Aman talks about in his two books. Some of the 'left leaning' elements included colonialism, major white families controlling natural resources, race, apartheid, environmental issues, gender equality etc and our Phantom helped solved these issues in Team Fantomen created stories.

A lot of these stories have been published by Frew but apart from the newspaper stories, many have not been read by phans outside of Scandinavia and or Frew readers.

We would recommend watching our past podcasts with Robert Aman and his two books:

When we know more about this book including the cover and the contents, we will update you via our website and social media platforms. We are still looking for a Fantomen reader who can help us with comic reviews, if that interests you, please contact us at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com.

Thanks go to Erik Engberg for the heads up on this news and others who have been able to help us with this announcement.